Pyrgulopsis carinifera

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Pyrgulopsis carinifera
Critically Imperiled
Critically Imperiled (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Pyrgulopsis
Species:
P. carinifera
Binomial name
Pyrgulopsis carinifera
(Pilsbry, 1935)
Synonyms[2]
  • Fluminicola avernalis carinifera Pilsbry, 1935

Pyrgulopsis carinifera is a species of minute freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Hydrobiidae.

This species' natural habitat is springs. It is endemic to springs in the Moapa Valley, southern Nevada, United States.[3]

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